Tips To Help you Stop Dog Barking
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You just got a new dog. Your excited about it and have decided on a name. Now that you have it home you have to train it. One of the first problems most dog owners have is teaching their dog when it is okay to bark and when it is not okay to bark. This article will take a look at a few ways you can get this started quickly.
Positive reinforcement is the first thing you have to make your dog understand. When the dog obays your command you will give it a treat as a reward. If your dog does not obey your command then you will not give it a treat.
Why is your dog barking? This is the most important question you need to ask yourself. If you know why your dog is barking you can train it much more easily. Is your dog just bored? Do you have a lonely dog? Are your neighbors teasing it while he is outside? Find out the reason for your dogs barking and then address the cause of your dogs barking.
It's important that you assign your dog a command for when you want it to stop barking. For example, you could say “No Bark”. Make sure that you assign your dog a certain behaviour to go along with the command, also. You may want your dog to sit or go lay down upon your command.
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The third tip is to crate train your dog. The crate can be used to put your dog in if he doesn’t obey your command. This is a good option if your dog likes to bark at someone excessively when they come to the door. Howver this isn.
The forth tip is to decide how you want your dog to really respond. Many people do not like it when their dog barks at someone who comes to the door. But how bad really is that? Your dog is simply trying to warn you. A good idea is to let your dog bark a few times and then teach it how you want it to respond from there. For example, you could let your dog bark three times and then go sit by the door.
The fifth tip is to use a stop barking collar if nothing else seems to work. Not all shock collars are bad because you can control how much your dog gets shocked. You don't have to limit yourself just those types of collars you do have other options available to you.
Teaching your dog how to stop barking isn’t going to be easy. But now is the time to get started before your dogs barking becomes a real problem. So, put a few of these stop dog barking techniques to good use before things do get worse.
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